Increasing access
The application of multicultural education to STEM
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13017259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brandi Hinnant-Crawford (0000-0002-4343-7611, Western Carolina University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 250-256 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for Multicultural Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2053-535X • E-ISSN: 2053-5368 |
| Publisher | Emerald Publishing Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1108/jme-06-2016-0035 |
| OpenAlex | W2507494499 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
Today, I want to argue, the most urgent social issue affecting poor people and people of color is economic access. In today's world, economic access and full citizenship depend crucially on math and science literacy. I believe that the absence of math literacy in urban and rural communities throughout this country is an issue as urgent as the lack of registered Black voters in Mississippi was in 1961. (Moses and Cobb, 2002, p. 5) Robert Moses, Civil Rights activist and founder of the Algebra Project, articulates the necessity of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) literacy for underserved communities in the USA. Many scholars argue that education equity and equality is the civil rights issue of this generation. STEM education is currently popular and an influential trend in education, but historically, high quality STEM education has been reserved for the privileged -those identified as gifted or wealthy. Plato explained in Laws, that
Multicultural education · Multiculturalism · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Higher Education Learning Practices · Innovative Education and Learning Practices · Teaching and Learning Programming
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |